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The Tender Contributions Salon grew out of a recurring feeling in my work, a sense that many people wanted more space to talk together, not just to read, but to sit with what’s coming up in their own lives and in the wider world. My writing often moves between the personal and the collective, and the salon offers a place to explore those threads together, in real time, with others who are also navigating change, uncertainty, and complexity. Hosted bi-monthly, the salon is a live, unrecorded conversation space for practicing thought while it’s still forming, for speaking without the pressure of having the right words or the right answers.

This is a facilitated group process and not a substitute for therapy.It is intentionally not recorded, to support presence, honesty, and a sense of safety in being imperfect, unsure, or mid-process. This is not a coaching space or a place to be fixed, but a soft, attentive space to listen, to be witnessed, and to practice holding big and difficult topics together, without rushing toward resolution. Access to the salon is offered through a subscription on Substack, with options to join monthly or annually.

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Soft Landing is a small, intimate group space for writing, reflection, and grief-tending, created in response to a growing longing I’ve felt both in myself and in the people I work with. Over the past year, more and more people have asked if I offer grief work, or if I would hold spaces where grief can be acknowledged and tended to, rather than pushed through or carried alone. I’ve felt that same desire for places where grief is allowed to be present without becoming overwhelming or performative, and without needing to be fixed.

This group brings together the threads that already run through my work as a writer, body-oriented group facilitation, and apprentice in grief-tending. Soft Landing sits at the intersection of these practices.

It’s a small, thoughtfully held group where we use writing as a way of listening, not performing, and simple somatic practices to help people arrive, orient, and feel supported enough to stay with their experience. Writing is used as a form of sense-making, a way to give shape to what’s been felt or carried, without needing to turn it into a polished story. The group is held with clear boundaries and gentle attention, recognising that everyone’s process looks different.

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This work understands grief as inseparable from love. In choosing to pay attention, to write, to witness and be witnessed, we are offering our devotion to that love

This is not a grief-tending ceremony, and it’s not therapy. It’s also not a traditional writing workshop. There’s no pressure to share, no expectation to go deep, and no requirement to arrive with a particular kind of grief. Some people come with personal loss, others are living through periods of change, uncertainty, or things that haven’t had much space elsewhere. What matters is not the content, but the quality of attention and the steadiness of the container.

Soft Landing is for people who are looking for a place where what they feel can move, change shape, and be met with care, curiosity, and presence. A place to slow down, write, listen, and sit alongside others in a way that feels grounded, attentive, and human.